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Show 66 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jan. 10, Fam. HYPOGRAMMID^E. Genus BRIADA, Walk. BRIADA PR^CEDENS, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1098. B. VARIANS, n. sp. (Pl. VI. fig. 12.) Female blackish brown : fore wing with transverse basal, subbasal, and discal black-bordered yellow wavy narrow lines ; reniform mark elongated, yellowish, with black centre ; space beyond the discal line golden yellow, margined by a transverse pure-white narrow line, outside of which is a blackish pale-bordered transverse streak interrupted in the middle by a suffused streak proceeding to the middle of exterior margin : hind wing and abdomen greyish brown; cilia with pale inner line. Head and thorax ferruginous brown. Expanse lg inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. B. CERVINA, Walk. ib. xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1968. Genus CALLYNA, Guen. CALLYNA SIDEREA, Guen. Noct. i. p. 113. Silhet. C. MONOLEUCA, Walk. I. c. xv. p. 1667. Darjeeling (W. S. Atkinson). Fam. CATEPHID.-E. Genus COCYTODES, Guen. COCYTODES CARULEA, Guen. Noct. hi. p. 41. Silhet. C. MODESTA, Van der Hoeven, Lep. Nouv. pl. 7. f. 8. C. immodesta, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 42. Genus CATEPHIA, Ochs. CATEPHIA LINTEOLA, Guen. ib. p. 44. Genus ERCHEIA, Walk. ERCHEIA TENEBROSA, n. sp. Male blackish brown : fore wing with an elongated curved ferruginous apical streak, which is margined and marked with black lines; reniform mark and a parallel line beyond dull ferruginous ; posterior margin broadly ferruginous, with numerous dark speckles', the division of colour marked by a black irregular line; a black'wavv line and some irregular streaks ascending from before the posterior an°*le-hind wing fuliginous black, with two white spots from above anai angle; cilia with two elongated white streaks. Underside whitish |